Lupara wrote:JD wrote:They were aware of other Montreal deaths after Sciascia also. Patrick DeFilippo and some of his crew members (Guaragna, Mancuso, Spirito) were all surveilled attending the wake of Giuseppe Arcuri in June 2001.
But that was a Giuseppe Arcuri from New York, not Montreal. I believe he was a cousin of the Arcuris in Montreal. Montagna was close to him as well so I think he was a member of DeFillipo's crew.
I think JD was suggesting or stating that because Montrealers attended Giuseppe Arcuri's wake in New York and would have interacted with the New York Bonannos, the Bonanno Family administration did know of people in the Montreal Mafia who had died. B. speculated that maybe New York knew of this Romeo Bucci's death in 1997 through Sciascia, which is very possible, but I think JD is suggesting or stating that New York would have at least known of Bucci's death and other Montrealers' deaths after 1999, the year of Sciascia's death.
In the rest of the post I will be repeating what I've previously written here and other organized-crime forums.
Please note that despite some posters' thinking that part of Humphreys and Lamothe's agenda when writing
The Sixth Family included wiping out all links between the Rizzuto organization and the New York Bonannos, those of you on the Real Deal or formerly there may recall that the earlier part of my quote from my personal communication with Humphreys states "{t}he Giuseppe Arcuri we were interested in was born in 1930 in Cattolica, arrived in New York and was decidedly a made Bonanno man who was a Sixth Family partner through Gerlando Sciascia and others." I found out through Canadian organized-crime writer James Dubro that during Lee Lamothe's crime-writing days (Lamothe was also an investigative reporter besides being an organized-crime writer), Lamothe had always been interested in determining in what family or to what family Canadian mafiosi or mafia associates respectively belonged. Dubro told me Lamothe was obsessed. I don't think Lamothe was aware how interested many of us would be, especially the Canadian posters among us, to read that type of information in articles or books--even simple charts or lists would probably be voraciously gobbled up.
Humphreys and Lamothe did not know the exact relationships between Giuseppe Arcuri of New York, Domenico Arcuri Sr. of Montreal, and Giacinto Arcuri of Toronto. I
believe that in the most recent edition of
The Sixth Family, the co-authors seemed only reasonably sure that Giuseppe and Giacinto were brothers, with Domenico probably a cousin to the two. Recall that whenever Sciascia found himself in Toronto, he stayed at Giacinto's residence; so this is even more evidence of the close ties between Sciascia and Giuseppe Arcuri, who together owned a Long Island pizzeria.
Giacinto Arcuri had very tight ties with the New York Bonannos because of his ability to supply heroin. Giacinto and his crew were distinguished by law enforcement in Canada as distinct from the Toronto Sicilian Group headed by Nino Cammalleri, the uncle of Vito Rizzuto's wife. However, Giacinto and this Cammalleri have always been very close to each other and probably remain so to this day. I don't know whether we'll ever find out into which family many older Sicilian crime figures in the Toronto area such as Giacinto, Cammalleri, and others were made--or even whether they are made. I suspect that when Lamothe and Humphreys suggested in their book that Giacinto figured even higher in the Toronto underworld hierarchy than Peter Scarcella, Lamothe was the one who had done the research to make this claim. Some of you may know that the professional and personal relationships that Lamothe and Antonio Nicaso previously enjoyed at one time grew even more strained when Lamothe had written on Rick Porrello's old crime board his disagreement with an unnamed person about the number of Sicilian crime groups in Toronto, said unnamed person having been cited in the news the day before. That unnamed person was Nicaso, and when I mentioned to him what Lamothe has posted, I had no idea he and Lamothe hadn't been on good terms for some time. Antonio contacted Lee, and Lamothe later posted an apology on the crime board. This is an example of Lamothe's obsession, but I don't know whether for example, when he and Nicaso were writing their 2001 book
Bloodlines, Lamothe limited himself to US Department of Justice reports and FBI reports or whether he also relied on underworld sources.
One of the points I want to make is that not every Sicilian male criminal who was born or raised in Cattolica Eraclea and then made his way to North America last century must have been made into what was then the Cattolica Eraclea cosca led by Nino Manno, who in my opinion Edwards and Nicaso mistakenly indicated in their recent book that Manno settled in Canada shortly after Nick Rizzuto Sr. did--in fact Manno was deported from Canada at least once for being here illegally. Lupara had suggested in this thread that maybe Nick Rizzuto Sr. was a transfer to the Bonanno Family--this is a possibility insofar as there's even the slightest uncertainty that Rizzuto was made in Sicily before becoming a member of the Bonanno Family. Some of that uncertainty comes from Italian law enforcement's views about Rizzuto, who in 1992 was listed in an Italian police report as the head of the Manno crime familly in Cattolica Eraclea, later named the Manno-Rizzuto family. We've all forgotten that Lamothe and Nicaso stated in
Bloodlines that Rizzuto was made into the Siculiana family--the detail in
Mafia inc. that Nino Manno's mother's maiden name was Caruana was intriguing to say the least. But in that same book you learn that Tommaso Buscetta had asked Rizzuto about the latter's status within the Montreal Mafia, to which Rizzuto replied that he and others were under the Bonannos. If Lamothe still believed Rizzuto was made into the Siculiana family, I think there should have been more of an effort made in
The Sixth Family to clarify relatonships, especially if the book's co-authors truly did hold the untenable belief that some Rizzuto organization members had dual membership.
Later tonight or tomorrow I'll try to post a bit more about Bucci in the "Bonanno proposed induction list" thread (
http://www.theblackhand.club/forum/view ... 164#p24164).
